Theodore Dwight

Theodore Dwight (15 December 1764-12 June 1846) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN 6) from 1 December 1806 to 3 March 1807, succeeding John Cotton Smith and preceding Lewis B. Sturges.

Biography
Theodore Dwight was born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1764, a grandson of Jonathan Edwards and a cousin of Aaron Burr. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1806 to 1807 and was secretary of the Hartford Convention of 1814-1815, and he later distinguished himself as an editor. Dwight moved to Albany in 1815 and to New York City in 1817, founding the New York Daily Advertiser. He died in 1846 at the age of 81.